Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Statement of the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Canada on the Duty to Document
Library and Archives Canada – Generic Valuation Tools now Available Online
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Schedule: Department of Internal Affairs: Chief Archivist (for Comment)
New South Wales State Records (Ausralia) – Digital Processes at Department of Premier and Cabinet Case Study
U.K. Higher Education Commission – From Bricks to Clicks: the Potential of Data and Analytics in Higher Education
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Research Knowledge Network – Institutional Mobilization Toolkit
Catholic Archives Society – Basic Disaster Planning Advice Leaflet
Linked Library Data: Early Activity and Development
Fair Use, MOOCs, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Frequently Asked Questions
Le Desgin Thinking en bibliothèque
Article – Cloud-supported Preservation of Digital Papers: a Solution for Special Collections?
Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 22, no. 1-2 (January-February 2016)
Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 15, no. 3-4, 2015 (Special Issue: Controlled Vocabularies and the Semantic Web)
The Journal of Contemporary Archival Practices, vol. 3 (2016)
Saskatchewan History, vol. 67, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2015 (Special Issue: 70th anniversary of the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan)
Saanich Archives (B.C.) Newsletter (January 2016)
Society of Georgia Archivists Newsletter, vol. 48, no. 1 (Winter 2016)
Book – Digital Libraries: Interoperability and Uses
Book – Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland (Third Edition)
Book – Ethics and the Future of Spying: Technology, National Security and Intelligence Collection
Book – Practical Corpus Linguistics: an Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis
Book – The Invention of Free Press: Writers and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Europe
Book – Privacy Rights in the Digital Age
Book – Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
Book – The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture Ethics, Privacy and Speech in Mediated Social Life
Book – Museums and Visitor Photography
Livre – Frontières & mémoires, arts & archives
Livre – Les archives de la collaboration militaire française dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Livre – L’archiviste dans quinze ans : nouvelles attentes, nouvelles responsabilités, nouveaux défis
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
First Nations Records and Information Management Symposium 2016
February 2, 2016, Vancouver
Yukon Archives à la carte
February 4, 2016, Whitehorse
Knowledge Management 2016: Technology, Collaboration, Innovation
March 2-4, 2016, Toronto
State of Deception: the Power of Nazi Propaganda
January 25 – February 11, 2016, Paris (UNESCO Headquarters)
Cour en ligne massif et ouvert – Documents numériques, du papier au web
1er février au 4 mai 2016
Online Course – Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions
February 8 – March 4, 2016
Webinar – Software Benchmarking in Digital Preservation
February 11, 2016
Digital Preservation Meets Big Data
March 14-15, 2016, Cambridge
International Internet Preservation Consortium Web Archiving Conference 2016
April 13-15, 2016, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Archives and Records Association, UK and Ireland Annual Conference
August 31 – September 2, 2016, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
National Archives of India – Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Papers
Historical Archives of the European Union – Online Exhibitions Blog
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Document Blog
Video – New Tools for Providing Access to Digital Image Collections: Mirador and Spotlight
Video – The Future of Linked Data in Libraries: Assessing BIBFRAME Against Best Practices
Video – Secrets of the Online Harvard Libraries
Harvard University’s Berkman Center – Amber, a “Mutual Aid” Tool for Bloggers & Website Owners to Help Keep the Web Available
Baladodiffusion – L’historien, l’archive et le silence
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada must focus on innovation economy to thrive in digital age
Canada’s electronic spy agency broke privacy law by sharing metadata, watchdog says
Meet Heritage Minister Joly, Ottawa’s new political powerhouse
Open Letter to Canadians on the Trans-Pacific Partnership from the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade
History museum staff raised ethical objections to acquisition of Empress of Ireland collection
Veteran calls out Canadian War Museum for using wrong American-style salute on promotional poster
Sarah Jennings interviewed on National Arts Centre History in LAC Signatures Series
Patent of Invention Applications at Library and Archives Canada
Canadian Library Association Votes to Dissolve
The CLA is dead. Long live the CLA.
What should be included in Canada’s online archive of queer film?
After 1755: Archives and Acadian Identity
Privacy commissioner raps B.C. for massive privacy protection failure
Le Québec, parent pauvre de Wikipédia
Le Québec se met à l’index
BAnQ – Archives du mois: Promenade dans la neige
BAnQ – Arthur Buies, au-delà de la fiction
University of Toronto – Bringing manuscripts to your screens: professor Alexandra Gillespie co-leads a million-dollar project to preserve medieval manuscripts
Former McMaster University archivist donates figure skating collection
A peek inside Canada’s X-Files: some of the past UFO sightings reported around the Greater Toronto Area
Ottawa – L’histoire méconnue des plaines LeBreton
Historical documents arrive at Port Hope Archives (Ont.)
Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (Ont.) – Unbuilt Peel: what could Have Been
Ontario Artist’s blank books project seeks to restock historic Baghdad library
The Okotoks Museum and Archives (Alb.) Celebrates 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote
1939 royal visit to Burnaby (B.C.) documented in archive video
Nanaimo (B.C.) lending library destroyed by fire
Archives Bois-Francs : un nouvel organisme voit le jour
Association des archivistes du Québec – Gestion de la performance : documentez le dossier des employés
La Presse+ établit un record historique
Afrique / Africa
South Africa – Missing Commission for Conciliation‚ Mediation and Arbitration records a common headache for courts
Nigerian Copyright Reform Becomes Less Transparent As Comments Roll In
Mali – Direction des finances et du matériel du Ministère des Domaines de l’État et des Affaires Foncières : silence : les archives se désagrègent… !
Préservation du patrimoine culturel au Mali : l’UNESCO sensibilise la jeunesse via des supports pédagogiques
Bénin – Initiative panafricaine pour sauver les archives photographiques
Moderniser la gestion des archives au Sénégal : une condition de l’émergence économique
Algérie – Archives, disparus de la Guerre de libération et indemnisations au centre de la visite du ministre des Moudjahidine Tayeb Zitouni en France
Algérie – Contentieux liés à la mémoire : jusqu’où ira Paris ?
Amériques / Americas
The Real Legacy of Hillary Clinton’s Personal Email: Outdated Government-wide Email Management and Overclassification
Where Do Presidential Campaign Websites Go When Campaigns Die?
Election 2016: how Are the Candidates Using Instagram?
Trove of Marine Corps films from 1930s-1970s to be preserved
WGBH, Library of Congress, and WETA to Digitize PBS NewsHour Collection
Bayan USA files Freedom of Information Act request on FBI role in Mamasapano
Arkansas – State Archives History Found in Conway Attic
Illinois Farm Bureau archives hold onto history
Yale University – Donated film reels contain footage from the Nanking Massacre
University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive to open its doors
When it Comes to Born-Digital, how Well Do we Know our Users?
Michael Brown’s death sparks Twitter archiving project
Intellectual Property Rights Issues for Software Emulation: an Interview with Euan Cochrane, Zach Vowell, and Jessica Meyerson
Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history
New York Public Library – Using Public Domain Materials in the Classroom
16 LGBTQ Historical Treasures Hiding in the New York Public Library’s Photo Archives
Digital Preservation Planning: a National Digital Stewardship Residency Boston Project Update
What do a Gutenberg Bible, Charles Bukowski and Paul Theroux have in common? The Huntington Library.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Announces Acquisition of Rare Secular Flemish Manuscript
Judge Approves Sale of John Rogers Photos
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Celebrated Northern Territory archivist joins forces of two governments
New Zealand – Ngā Taonga archive steps into digital age
Tibetan museum establishes digital records of collection
Cambodia – Access to information law site goes online
India – First set of 100 Netaji Files declassified; PM visits National Archives, meets family members of Netaji
India – War criminal: how did a fake letter about Netaji Bose create so much controversy?
Indian National Army history rots in defence archive
India – Google Cultural Institute Brings Mumbai’s Oldest Museum Online
India – Mussoorie historian threatens to burn rare Sanskrit manuscripts
Europe / Europa
Brussels Includes Reference to the Holocaust in the General Data Protection Regulation
New Europeana Collections site brings people closer to culture
Racial harmony in a Marxist utopia: how the Soviet Union capitalised on US discrimination: in pictures
The role of Anne Frank’s diary and academic freedom for text & data mining
Nouveau témoignage sur les expériences médicales nazies
Serbian photojournalists appeal against threat to copyright
Not so neutral: wartime workers at a Swiss arms factory: in pictures
Luxembourg – Les archives de la Commission de surveillance du secteur financier désormais accessibles aux Archives nationales
Luxembourg – Le prestataire de service de dématérialisation et de conservation (PSDC), une banque qui stocke de l’information
Un algorithme est-il un document communicable ?
Comment transmettre la mémoire des déchets radioactifs
Two new Yves Saint Laurent museums to showcase designer’s extraordinary archive
Ireland – National Library employee charged with stealing rare books
Ireland – 1916 Rising inspires wonderful new interactive map
UK government retreats on plans to water down the Freedom of Information Act
UK National Archives – Magna Carta resource wins education award
British Library – Queen Victoria’s handwriting
Beatrix Potter story Kitty-in-Boots discovered after 100 years
Berkshire – Reading Prison: look at some of the documents in the archive
Riddle of mystery manuscripts found in South Shields chimney
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Turkey – Adana’s visual archivist
International
Explore your Ancestors’ Lives in Old Newspapers
Preparing cultural heritage materials to be Digitised
A Secret Memorial and other Subversive Art
How studying the old drawings and writings of kids can change our view of history
NATO looks to combat Russia’s information weapon: document
Now Historians can Digitally Preserve what Extremist Groups Would Like to Destroy
90% of large organisations will have a chief data officer by 2019: Gartner
A Linked Data Journey: Survey of Publishing Strategies
People think curating just means choosing nice things: secrets of the museum curators
The race for the master algorithm has begun